2012 Theme Camps

2017 Archive

Our ‘Shady Lovers Lounge’ is a lush and cushy retreat for all you dusty lovers out there! For all you young and young at heart we invite you to browse through our Sparkle Boutique open daily until the goods run out! Come mend those broken soles at BRC Shoe Repair or treat yourself to a kiss during our Happy Hour Kissing Booth! Some of our in-house DJ’s will be spinning sweet D&B periodically though out the week so stop on by, try our Lazy Morning Yoga and meet a fellow Tacoman or just snag a little love, we’ve got plenty to go around.

Create a talisman for your own ritual at Talisman at the Oasis Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday from 2-5. Metal, leather, wood, beads and more with tools and adornments as well as a celebratory cocktail all provided

Tantra Mantra is a camp dedicated to the transformation and transcendence of the human condition. We integrate ancient esoteric teachings of tantra with modern self-development techniques to create a unique environment for experiences that prepare the ground for evolution. To envision and prepare the world of tomorrow we need to rewire our nervous systems and free ourselves from the old paradigm. Tantra is an accelerator of evolution. The context of Burning Man serves as an amplifier to these ancient Tantric techniques. The collective ambition towards freedom present during Burning Man is unique. It erases differences between individuals and supports the Tantric effort of transcending all false dualities. From regular morning energetic practices to one-of-a-kind ceremonies and ritual, Tantra Mantra embraces and promotes the change towards a new human agreement. We leave a great place for spontaneity… Expect the unexpected.

Tautology is a collective of mathematician-artists from all around the world who build installations for local, regional, and international festivals. More information is available at http://tautology.io/ .

Come bask in the shade of our fire-poofing volcano, and boogie to our ground-shaking beats while we serve you a refreshing iced libation. Don’t forget to bring us your playa virgins to sacrifice to the volcano god and to search for the poofer trigger!

We are a comfortable neighborhood pub with a rockin’ attitude. In honor of His Noodly Goodness, the Friendly Fire Bar will administer ice cold libations and groovin’ tunes for your mind, body and spirit. Test your pole dancing skills, call almost anywhere in the world on our free public phone, or use our public wi-fi hotspot. The Flying Spaghetti Monster welcomes all, so stop by and be touched by His noodly appendage.

Please join us for drinks, lotions, massages, tattoos and live music. Take the ramp of death bicycle jump ( free band-aid if you get messed up) – It’s YUGE!!! – Write down your favorite saying on the potty mouth wall of shame. Visit our Dare to be Great interactive exhibit where we will film your feat. The band will be singing original harmonies most afternoons.

Tetrix VIllage welcomes you to Camp Meow, Rubber Armstrong and the Stargazer Artcar. Rubber Armstrong’s iconic feature, the illuminated Skull, Tent space for performances, bar, workshops, talks, games and events throughout the week. We’ll be throwing a space party on the first Monday night at 8pm! come party with us, and then take a maiden midnight journey on the Stargazer onto the playa

Swing by and draw with UV light, enjoy Spanking & Pringles, climb our scaffold and Moon The Man in the comfortable seating up top, chill in the shaded hammocks in Las Hamacas, 7-11am enjoy coffee, pancakes and unidentifiable fried pig parts. Snowconeokie will be roaming deep playa, catch us, do a forfeit, get a cone; transforms into Darkwadeokie at night, roaming the playa giving out lights and shots to foolish people. Entirely Amateur since 2001

If you’re struggling with a broken down art car, come to the Airtight Garage and get the assistance you need to get back out on the Playa. Our skilled crew will be available from 1pm-5pm each day to assist in making minor repairs and dispensing advice!

The Ancient Cult of the Alligator is a place for worshippers to live in the NOW. Come by for daily afternoon activities, featuring an open bar providing specialty drinks (Alligator Bites!), music to replenish your soul, activities to refresh your mind and body, and, the hallmark of any good cult, a soupcon of brainwashing so light you won’t notice till it’s too late and you’re one of us.

The Avant Yard has been a theme camp since 2008 but our founders first tasted dust in 2006. We are affiliated with the Arts Diaspora, an international network of artists, healers and do-gooders who meet once a year at Burning Man to produce art, connect with new Gnomies (members of our community) and find new ways to empower each other to do wonderful things.

Come play with our interactive Barbie & Ken boxes. Surprise and delight your friends with the surprise that awaits you in our camp. Play in the boxes, or sit and chill Dress up like Barbie, play in the boxes, sit and chill – Come play with us!

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the kind of Honorable Court of Black Rock City, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. Bring your own defendant, or one will be provided for you.

Did you know a pack of cheetahs is also called a coalition?! Well we are the friendliest, silliest, and most ridiculous pack of cheetahs you’ll ever meet! Come say hello, take a ride on our PlayaBeest, have a drink at our bar, enjoy our DJs mixes, dance with us, be dazzled by our pyroboard, and make some new best friends.

How do you like your eggs? Discover our kitchen and dining room and be treated to a service of eggs in a most inviting and enticing atmosphere that you’ll not soon forget. Be greeted by our warm Hosts, dim lighting, and soft music. Turn off your lights and drop your packs, take a seat at our communal table set with plates and utensils just for you. Trust us, our eggs and our service are what you’ve been looking for.

How did you like your eggs? …I thought you might. And you’re always welcome back for more.

The Cove is a 14′ tall tower designed for climbing and interaction among Burners, inside the tower is lined with cushions, blankets and pillows for lounging, sleeping and spending time with each other.

The Dirty Beetles seek to provide an all-inclusive and inviting space of positivity and creativity, to welcome strangers and family alike with a soundtrack of danceable music drenched in love and boogie, and to create a space where people want to be.

Where the worlds most fabulous musicians and dancers from MarchFourth Marching Band, The Saloon Ensemble, Love-Bomb Go-Go Marching Band, Trashcan Joe, and The Ukeladies are dumped and recycled to endlessly create music from a by-gone era. Come sing, dance, play our piano, and join-in as we all share in electronic-free acoustic joy! Lyrics included!

Directly from the Great White North, land of the maple leaf, comes the sugar shack of your dreams. Yes, a sugar shack on the Playa! Maple taffy on snow. Yes, snow on the Playa, in August. We will make it happen. Join us after dark for a taste of sweetly delicious “tire d’érable sur neige.” The Dusty Beavers are an international group: Canadians, French and Americans.

An international group of diverse individuals united to achieve a new homeostasis of desert utopia. Like the giant rodents of their namesake, the Capybara is both distinct and copacetic, if not symbiotic, with others.

Welcome to the Empress, the last bastion of a failed Empire! Every afternoon and evening our gracious hosts will serve you tea in our interpretation of a Victorian Drawing Room, bringing you back to a more civilized time, where sanguine conversation begets cheer and hope.

The Enclave consists of a bubbly band of brothers, sisters and lovers united by a passion for art, design, engineering, entertainment and a whole lot of miscellanies fodder. The Enclave brings a self-made Playastani charm to the inner ring of Black Rock by celebrating the civically minded gifts we have to offer in a format that intends to suspend and expand our visitor’s expectations

An assembly of tinkerers, artists and fun weirdos who are designing the future through new and strange experiences. Come visit us, and you too can climb into the skies and watch the world from above, or stay down on earth for some great celebrations!

Holy Flaming LED Ball! Visit the Institute of Higher Yearning where our overeducated undermanaged faculty staff will jam in your brain all the science, electro-shock therapy and swordplay that you can take. God created the playa to train the faithful and we will teach you EVERYTHING you need to know, both in Theory and through practice. Pay attention! On Thursday, there will be a Final Exam.

The Journey Home is the support camp for the art project The Journey, offering fellow artists and wayfarers a respite: a space to rest their weary feet. Panel discussions will provide insights, both pragmatic and inspirational, on making a large-scale, civically-engaged art project succeed and thrive.

What could be more lost than a penguin in the desert? Drop in to our hospitality oasis where we offer comforts such as shade, couches, wine, lemonade, chocolate, snow cones, friendly people, and live entertainment. Day or night, get up on stage for asshole theatre, watch some bands, dance to DJs or take a workshop. Join us as we navigate surprises all week! Or just sit and we will engage you in conversation as you watch the playa float by.

The Mason Jar returns to the playa after a decade long break! The inhabitants of this structure will once again capture and catalog the insect people of the playa and feed them the nectar of their choice. They will be tagged and classified and much data will be collected. The Mason Jar is a giant jar on its side, which first appeared on the playa in about 2000. It became a hit with the insectoids and the population in general. The Mason Jar houses a bar and becomes a public space for our events, teachings, and general mayhem. Our camp will incorporate a tea house dome, serving fine teas daily for those who don’t want to be bugged.

The Miscellaneous Heathen’s are home to The Beethen, a Mutant Vehicle that is one part Bee, one part Beast, and one part Heathen. She brings devilment, laughs and comfort to burners who encounter her in the dust.

The Monkey Hut has hosted jam sessions, jewelry design, and body art workshops which have always been open to all. No prerequisites exist to participate in our community, and every year it has enlarged. In taking part in these sessions, the participants will be given enough instruction to get started, but will need to discover, exercise, and rely on their inner resources to find the artistic conclusion to their projects. Through the music and art, the participants will express themselves using their unique gifts. The Monkey Hut community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We think for people to go from listening to music to making music can transform and individual. Everyone is invited to play music and craft with us. Through making music and crafting together we seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves. There is no substitute for immediate experience.

It’s the year 2017, the New Barbarians, led by their massive steel ruler, Jurassic Pork, are on a quest to spread their bountiful stock of delicious wieners to the mouths of hungry burners. Come party with us! We’re all about Sausage Sizzle BBQ parties serving up sausage meats and tasty beats.

The Phage is an homage to the vast dark ecology whose foment gave birth to Earth’s living diversity. These ubiquitous viral life forms evolve faster than any other life on earth. In their furious co-optive radiations they have acted as the vital genetic pollinators that wove long-separated lines of cellular life into resplendent new threads — the phage are the needles of life’s tapestry. Beware if you encounter us: memetic biohazards lie ahead.

The Pongo Lounge is an SF based community dedicated to interactive games, art and music; stop by and take a ride in our HUMAN GYROSCOPE, play an interactive game with us, relax in our cuddle puddle or just lounge and chill.

We play soulful cuts of deep and progressive house, to lift you up, brighten your afternoon, and get you ready for those playa nights- our later afternoon parties are on tuesday and thursday.

For 19 years The Red NOse District has aimed to provide a place for the citizens of BRC to find the joy of Play without reservation. Giving all a reason & the support of family to get physically engaged, dressed up silly & laugh, providing a feeling that is hopefully taken away & made part of every day life back in the default world.
FUN = Funny
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Stilts, Swings, a DIY Stage, Shade for laid back heckling, Fire Sculptures to snuggle up next to for Intimate nighttime Giggling, High Chair & Low Top Bars with Themed Cocktail Parties, Playground Gear Shenanigans Adult Style, Lessons & Movie Nights…
Come Visit, Learn, Play & Laugh, who knows you might wanna move in with us!

The Sunset Trip is a mashup of 4 Los Angeles based camps with a concurrent theme of getting together and throwing epic parties. We are all vastly different in what we provide to the world, yet share the same values and deep rooted awesomeness that bring us together year after year. We bring the Dirty, Sparkle and Bad with No Pants!

Come find out what brings all the burners to The Yard! Whether it’s Falafel’s eats; Lootbaggers treats; Best Butt booty; a titillating climb on the scramble of scandal or the promise of the perfect pube postiche, we’ve got it all in a quaint and inviting setting sure to please.

We’re a low-key lounge and rest stop for wanderers who want to get off their feet for a while. If you favor a community built on the intimacies of storytelling and sensual touch, if you need a break from bar-crawling and the sonic hypnotics of boots-and-pants bootyshakers, if swinging is in any way your thing, then this could be your place. With adult-oriented events and play space cuz some of us swing that way too; consent means not being too afraid to ask.

We are veteran Burners with over 120 years of experience in creating a drama free experience for ourselves and the Burning Man community thru creative problem solving and outreach. If you are having a problem with your infrastructure or looking for ideas for improvements, come by and let us help.

At Tickled Mink (where everyone is a star!) we are here to help you pretty yourself at our our movie star mirror so you can release your inner diva. If you don’t know how, we’ll teach you how minks smeyes so once you step into our plush, cerulean fake fur lined photo booth you can strike a glamorous cover page pose when the flashes pop.

Tierra Bomba is our take on a typical backpackers hostel in a lost paradise somewhere in South America. Known for having laid-back vibes, it is welcoming, cozy and full of travelers from all over the world.

Tiki Bar & Hammock – bring your thirsty lips over to enjoy a fresh cool island drink and visit and connect with neighbors and fellow burners. Get some advice if you are new to burning man, and of course, swing in our hammocks with us or relax on our sofas and stools in the shade!

SAVE YOURSELF! COME make your way to TIN FOIL HAT, Black Rock City’s Center for Pseudo Science and Conspiracy Theory! You think its a fashion statement but it is soooo much more. Share your Talents in bending Aluminum Foils to your fantasy, and share them with the world! We are bringing our materials of Tin Foil to allow the freedom of expression of making hats of tin foil…WE WILL SAVE THE WORLD! We are ingesting heavy metals , By wearing Tin Foil hats we will be saving ourselves from the radio waves that vibrate those tiny bits of heavy metals within our brains…causing all types of dis ease. We invite everyone to step right up, into our shady chill space to join our tin foil hat making 24/7….Bring your own aluminum, or some will be provided…Several Professional Tin Foil Hat Makers will be on hand to give lessons and help others shield themselves.

In the default world, the Toxic Disco Clam is a real aquatic creature – it uses a sparkling lighted exterior to attract other fish… and then it immobilizes them with acidic snot. We’re pretty much the same: we draw you in with dazzling lights and entertaining activities, we ply you with our intoxicating beverages, and we hope you never leave (we promise less snot).

This piece tells the story of our existence through the seven stages of our evolutionary map and gives a visual representation to knowing enlightenment and ultimately unconditional love as our higher or spiritual selves align with our human selves.

Imagine two trees shining in copper with exposed roots that grow in to hands holding a glowing heart of unconditional love. Transcendent Souls will be approximately 16′ tall will be made of steel, concrete, foam, fiberglass, copper, glass, wood and chain for “porch type” swing and solar for the electrical components inside of the heart/flame and solar spots lights that shine upward upon the tree trunks at night. Underneath the piece spectators will be able to experience Transcendent Souls from another perspective, with a large porch type swing that will be mounted/hung from the two main tree trunks. This will allow soul gazers to become part of the creation.

Where we bring culture, music, creativity from all corners of our Earth into a fusion here at our camp. Come experience a regenerative way of thinking, being, and playing with us! From seed gifting, to nightly art voyages out into the playa, to sunrise sets with warm tea tingling in your mouth preparing you for the rest of your journey.

Trifucta was born after three people in separate RV’s decided to create community space by parking them in the shape of a triangle. From that small act, a community comprised of artists, builders, fashion designers, and welders joined together to create connectivity through a common space that engages the playful creativity and expression inside each participant.

Got questions about your two-stroke engine? Maybe you just like to rev up your engine and make a lot of noise? Come on down to Two-Stroke Transit to talk to us. While here, you can find out how to prevent playa damage from dripping oil while improving your engine’s performance.